At a glance, it's apparent that something isn't right about the Boeing 747 NASA flew over the Mojave desert last month. The unusual airplane isn't some crazy new aerodynamic experiment, it's part of the space agency's scientific efforts to get a clear picture of space.

One of the most critical scientific challenges confronting American energy security is the elusive ability to integrate plentiful, yet intermittent, power sources, such as wind and solar, into the electrical grid.

Looking over the last ten years of movies, it's clear – we need more filmmakers with personality. Here are the 50 Best films of the 2000s as reflected by the decade's best filmmakers (Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Charlie Kaufman, Baz Luhrmann, Spike Lee, Guillermo del Toro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Christopher Nolan, David Cronenberg, Pixar, etc.).

All Tech Considered marks 2010 with a tribute -- from musician and writer David Was -- to the laser, which turns 50 years old this year. Was checks out new laser gadgets at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

A bomb destroyed part of a main gas pipeline in Russia's Muslim region of Dagestan, but supply disruptions are expected to be minimal, the regional division of Gazprom said.||"Unknown people blew up the...

"She's not Dario Franchitti and she's not Tony Stewart. She's not really shown over there [in the Indy Racing League] and won races and done stuff over there numbers-wise. She's just a marketing machine. Let's look at the facts and be blunt about it."

China's BYD, Greely and Sichuan are showing their wide-eyed dream of building vehicles for a U.S. market. While their gas-guzzlers are still a long way from being competitive in North America, their electric vehicles are remarkably advances. Could China takeover the new market? A report live from the 2010 Detroit Auto Show.

The recent, large contributions by members of the Mormon Church in California and Maine to defend civil marriage as only the union of one man and one woman run contrary to the overall mission of the church. In fact, they make the best case to downgrade traditional marriage as an earthly institution.

After discovering a major security breach from hackers in China that sought to steal info on Chinese and international human rights activists, Google says it will stop self-censoring Google.cn content in Chinese Google searches. Too bad the realization comes after they supported the Communist Party's censorship for years.

With the onset of YouTube and the emergence of digital advocacy, environmental groups, scientists, corporations, government agencies and independent filmmakers have all taken to the virtual airwaves in an effort to frame the critical environmental issues of today.

In war, innovation can mean the difference between a glorious victory and a world shattering defeat. When research and development departments have the funding of a desperate nation behind them, and are faced with a long and brutal campaign, the ideas that are spawned can turn the tide of battle. It's inevitable that the wilder ideas will be crazy.

It's disappointing to see some in Congress already seizing on the incident to portray Mr. Obama as soft on terrorism, a cheap accusation that the GOP trots out more often than Aesop's boy cried wolf. Now is the time for questions, not partisan accusations.

Walking around in the Philadelphia area in a Tony Romo jersey is dangerous. Especially on the very weekend that the Cowboys are playing the Eagles, as a woman in Bethlehem, Penn., found out the hard way.

Some real gems of this video? This dude's cell mate who tattooed his eyes blue because he thought "black would be too scary" and because his eyes are blue and he thought the dark blue and light blue would go well together.

Facebook is making a big mistake by moving away from its origins based on privacy for user data; its primary differentiator was that your user data was only visible to other users that you approved friend requests from. Here are three reasons why making some of this data public by requirement and some public by default is the wrong thing to do...